Delivery and crew

The frame is built by people we employ, from steel we bend ourselves, with concrete ordered by the load for your plot. Here is who turns up and what arrives, week by week.

1Site managerOn your plot every day of the frame, and your one phone number from the first dig to the keys.
3Steel fixersTie the cages in the yard and fix them on site to the engineer’s drawings.
2Formwork joinersSet and strike the shuttering for columns, beams and slabs, floor after floor.
2ConcretersPlace, vibrate and finish each pour, and take the test cubes.
1GroundworkerDigs the foundations and drains, and runs the dumper.

Fit out trades, the electrician, plumber and plasterer, are the same small firms we use on every house, working to our programme and our site manager.

What arrives, and when

Week 1

Fencing, welfare cabin, skip, mini digger

Week 2

Foundation cages from the yard, first concrete

Week 4

Column steel and formwork on the flatbed

Week 6

First floor slab, pumped in one day

Week 9

Roof slab, then the block for the infill

Week 12

Windows, roof covering, scaffold adapted

Week 14 on

Fit out materials in small drops, as the rooms need them

Timings are for a two storey house like the Formby. Every lorry is booked a day ahead and the site manager meets it.

Where we build

Within about 40 miles of the yard in Litherland, which keeps the steel lorry and the site manager close.

Liverpool
Sefton
Knowsley
Wirral
St Helens
West Lancashire
Halton
Warrington

Being a good neighbour

Before we start a letter to every house that can see the plot, with the site manager’s number on it.

On the road lorries booked, never left idling, and the road swept after every pour.

On the plot fenced, signed and locked, with a welfare cabin so nobody needs to knock on a door.

At the end fencing out, skip gone, and the verge put back the way we found it.

Prices and stages

Est. 1998